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Wikipedia’s pages too big for Africa?

Posted by: kozuch on: May 10, 2009

A blank Wikipedia article page resulted to have a 169:1 ratio of size vs. actual content. Web code optimization for the world’s TOP10 website required to fulfill its mission adequately.

Wikipedia next global crisis victim?

Posted by: kozuch on: January 7, 2009

Is Wikipedia in recession? After recent announcement of Nicolas Negroponte that OLPC is having difficulties, it seems the global financial and economical crisis won’t pass on non-profits by. In its last issue, the Wikipedia Signpost wrote the project is experiencing edit decline – have the problems come to the world’s biggest collaborative encyclopedia? One could [...]

Sugar-spin wont run on Alix.1C board

Posted by: kozuch on: January 4, 2009

Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to shell. Good luck!
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-3.2#
That is the output of both Sugar-spin Live CDs i tried on my AMD Geode LX800. The first was from early November 2008 running on Fedora 9.92, the second was a brand new Fedora 10 with Sugar 0.82-2.

Features removed from Windows 7

Posted by: kozuch on: January 4, 2009

Although I might be FOSS advocade, I still use Windows for a good portion of my work. I have not even managed switch from Windows XP to Vista and yet, some features new to Vista wont be included in Windows 7.  Here are some of the features removed from Windows 7.
Classic Start Menu and classic [...]

OpenOffice.org Foundation

Posted by: kozuch on: December 31, 2008

According to Michael Meeks’s post on OpenOffice.org developer activity, the project needs an independent foundation to oversee it. This would be so far logical escalation of disagreement between Sun and Novell.

OLPC is a $230M enterprise

Posted by: kozuch on: December 31, 2008

Summarizing OLPC Spotlight MIT 2008 keynote



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  • kozuch: You might be right, as according to Wikipedia:Modelling
  • Sam The Dog: Wikipedia was bound to have a decline in edits. Just compare the maturity of many articles now with, say two years ago. As it continues to mature

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